Frontmatter

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Acknowledgments ix
3. Contents xi
4. Translator's Note xv
5. Introduction. The Body of History 1
6. PART I. The State-Body: Metaphor of the Transition of Sovereignty
7. 1. The Defeat of the Body of the King: Essay on the Impotence of Louis XVI 29
8. 2. Sieyes, Doctor of the Body Politic: The Metaphor of the Great Body of the Citizens 76
9. PART II. The Narrative-Body, or History in Fiction
10. 3. Regeneration: The Marvelous Body, or The Body Raised Upright of the New Revolutionary Man 131
11. 4. The Monsters of a Fantastic Aristocracy, or How the Revolution Embodies Its Horrors 157
12. 5. David., or The Struggle of Bodies 183
13. PART III. The Body as Spectacle: The Flesh of Political Ceremony
14. 6. The Great Spectacle of Transparency: Public Denunciation and the Classification of Appearances 209
15. 7. The Bodies of the Political Carnival 247
16. 8. The Offertory of the Martyrs: The Wounded Body of the Revolution 280
17. Conclusion. A Few Bodies to End (the Revolution) 309
18. Notes 327
19. Index 359